Digital Resistance in the Middle East : : New Media Activism in Everyday Life /

Digital Resistance in the Middle East : : New Media Activism in Everyday Life / / Deborah Wheeler.

Explores how internet use empowers Arab citizensThis book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens’ lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred. Using ethnographic evidence and taking a comparative perspective, it prese...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Wheeler, Deborah,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2017
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 18 B/W illustrations 14 B/W tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES AND TABLES
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 A BRIEF HISTORY OF INTERNET DIFFUSION AND IMPACT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
  • 2 IT 4 REGIME CHANGE: NETWORKING AROUND THE STATE IN EGYPT
  • 3 NO MORE RED LINES: NETWORKING AROUND THE STATE IN JORDAN
  • 4 HURRY UP AND WAIT: OPPOSITIONAL COMPLIANCE AND NETWORKING AROUND THE STATE IN KUWAIT
  • 5 THE MICRO-DEMISE OF AUTHORITARIANISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST: WORKING AROUND THE STATE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
  • 6 FEAR THE STATE: REPRESSION AND THE RISKS OF RESISTANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
  • CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX: INTERNET USER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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